812 Ninth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. [No 141. 



Pooree report furnish us, which are as yet new in the Eastern Seas, 

 and the remarkable confirmation of the fact of the dangerous Wes- 

 terly set of 3 or 4 miles per hour prevailing at the Sand Heads, even 

 when as in this case, the nearest centre of the nearest storm was at 

 least 100 miles distant from the Light Vessels ! 



P.S. — I obtain, just as this sheet goes to press, two more documents. 

 The abstract of the log of the Ship Serin gapatam, Capt. Robertson, 

 and the notes taken at Purulia, which Capt. Hannyngton had mislaid. 

 The memorandum from the Seringapatam is as follows; she was 

 bound to Madras : — 



Lat. and Long. Noon 

 19° 26' N. 86"° 36' E. 



Bar. Ther. 

 2960 m° 



1st October, 1842.— Nautical Time. 



Course and Distance 

 S. S. W. 



Wind and weather variable S. W., N. W., and S. E., with thunder 



and rain. 



2»rfOc*.— S.S.W.180. | 17°39' 84° 32' | 29-50 83° 



N. W. strong breeze throughout. 



This position it will be seen places the Seringapatam on nearly the 

 same meridian as the Essex, but about 30 miles further to the North- 

 ward at Noon on the 2nd, and about 15 miles nearer to the track of 

 the centre of the Pooree hurricane, as I have laid it down. Her 

 Barometer is accordingly lower, and she had the N. W. breeze, (it 

 would have been a. gale had she been a degree less advanced on her 

 track,) " a steady" one throughout, which is what ought to have occur- 

 red with her. 



The following is the tabular statement of the storm at Purulia, as 

 sent me by Capt. Hannyngton : — 



